Man who pleaded to 115 charges in burglary sprees likely to be sentenced to Drug Court probation

Carhardt, 45, connected to about 75 burglaries in eight counties since 2005

11:26 AM,
Jan. 16, 2013

Serial burglar Edward Carhardt

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Mark Spivey
| @mark_spivey

Edward M. Carhardt Jr. only has spent about five months out of prison since July 2006, and he spent parts of those five months committing no fewer than 17 burglaries in six New Jersey counties before a massive, multijurisdictional law enforcement task force tracked him down and arrested him in September 2011.

Yet when the 45-year-old pleaded guilty to a 35-count indictment in the case Tuesday morning, the anticipated sentence cited in Superior Court raised an eyebrow among some of those familiar with the matter: five years of special probation in the state's Drug Court program. It certainly ...

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